We’re going to concentrate on the augmented triad/chord and look at how it’s constructed and how it functions. As the name suggests, if we augment something we increase it and in the case of an ...

These charts show how to build every inversion of every major or minor triad you might encounter. Use them as a reference to dip into when needed. Get these chord shapes under your fingers and you’ll ...

Take a normal major or minor triad - it doesn't matter which - and move its third up to play a perfect fourth, and you have a suspended 4 chord, or sus4 (root-5-7). Because it lacks a third ...

The dominant seventh of a V chord can be shown by the symbol V7. For example, G7 is made by taking the major triad of G (G - B - D) and adding an F (G - B - D - F). A cadence is formed by two ...